FRANCÉ (Raoul Heinrich). Die Alpen. Gemeinverständlich dargestellt. Leipzig, T. Thomas, 1913. Large in-8°, publisher's illustrated cloth binding. First edition, with two off-text maps, one of which is fold-out, 14 off-text colour reproductions and numerous vignettes in the text. An important work describing the Eastern Alps. The first part deals with the nature of the Alps, the second with life in the Alps and the third with the representation of nature and culture in the Alps. Raoul Heinrich Francé, pseudonym of Rudolf Heinrich Franzé (Vienna 1874 - Budapest 1943), was an Austro-Hungarian naturalist. Also included: - LEHNER (Wilhelm): Die Eroberung der Alpen. Munich, Hochalpenverlag, 1924. Large in-8°, publisher's cloth binding. First edition, illustrated with a colour frontispiece (view of Mont Blanc), 48 plates and 3 fold-out tables. A reference work on the history of mountaineering in the Alps. - UMLAUFT (Friedrich): Die Alpen: Handbuch der gesammten ALpenkude. Vienna, A. Hartleben, 1887. In-8°, handsome publisher's polychrome boards. Illustrated with a fold-out map and numerous illustrations in and out of the text (photographs, maps, sketches, etc.). A fine illustrated guide to the Alps. - SCHÄTZ (Josef Julius): Wunder der Alpen. Munich, Bruckman, 1929. In-4°, publisher's cloth binding. Second edition, illustrated with 256 pages of photographs. A fine album of photographs of the Alps. -TRENKER (Luis): Kamaraden der Alpen. Berlin, Th. Knaur Nachf. 1936. New edition. Memories of mountain adventures during and after the First World War, in the Dolomites, the Austrian and Swiss Alps. Luis Trenker (Saint-Ulrich in Gröden 1892 - Bolzano 1990) was an Italian-Austrian mountaineer, actor, film-maker and writer. His film career began in the last years of silent cinema and continued for more than half a century, until "Heimat aus Gottes Hand", a film he made in 1979 at the age of 87. He is one of the masters of German mountain cinema. Set of 5 works in German on the Alps.